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Italian School

16th century

Adoration of the Shepherds

ca. 1550

Pen and brown ink, gray-brown wash; framing lines in pen and gray-brown ink, on paper. Black chalk(?) smudges. Perimeter mounted into Destailleur album, folio 30(a).

2 1/8 x 4 inches (54 x 102 mm)

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

2006.27:1-96, fol. 30(a)

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Recueil de Dessins folio 30(a).
One of ninety-six drawings (2006.27:1-96) that the French architect and collector Hippolyte Destailleur apparently pasted into an empty quarto album. See Recueil de Dessins, folios: 30(2), 39(1), 41(1), and 42(1).

Provenance:

Hippolyte Alexander Gabriel Walter Destailleur (1822-1893), Paris (no mark; Lugt 740); his sale, Paris, 26 May 1893, lot 98, entire album; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London and Florence; from whom purchased through Galerie Alexandre Imbert, Rome, in 1909 by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), New York (no mark; see Lugt 1509); his son, J. P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), New York.

Associated names:

Anonymous, Netherlandish School, 16th cent., Formerly attributed to.
Destailleur, Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter, 1822-1893, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.

Bibliography:

Stampfle, Felice, with the assistance of Ruth S. Kraemer and Jane Shoaf Turner. Netherlandish Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries and Flemish Drawings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries in the Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1991, p. 15, no. 25, repr.

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